Faculty Work

COA faculty are published scholars, active artists, and engaged advocates.

Our 35 faculty members include one Guggenheim and two Fulbright fellows. Since 2013, faculty members have published six books, written/directed/produced a feature-length film, and have authored or presented dozens of peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations, performances, and installations.

Read more about faculty research and accomplishments:

NEWS

Discovering plant species crucial to rebuilding disturbed forests in Costa Rica while assisting with the creation of a research tool that could help conservationists restore endangered ecosystems worldwide is all in a days work for College of the Atlantic plant sciences professor Dr. Susan Letcher.

NEWS

Private well owners on the northern half of Mount Desert Island who are curious about the potential presence of arsenic and other elements in their drinking water are encouraged to join a water study led by College of the Atlantic earth sciences chair Dr. Sarah Hall.

NEWS

Accompanied by a team of student researchers, professor John Anderson spends his summers studying bird life on Great Duck – a small, remote Atlantic Ocean island 11 miles south of the entrance to Frenchman Bay.

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In this episode of WERU’s “Coastal Conversations,” COA W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology and Natural History John Anderson, Meaghan Lyon ’16, and Audra McTague ’19 discuss declining populations of herring and great black-back gull populations and what this change portends for the health of the Gulf of Maine system as a whole.

NEWS

Discovering plant species crucial to rebuilding disturbed forests in Costa Rica while assisting with the creation of a research tool that could help conservationists restore endangered ecosystems worldwide is all in a days work for College of the Atlantic plant sciences professor Dr. Susan Letcher.

NEWS

Private well owners on the northern half of Mount Desert Island who are curious about the potential presence of arsenic and other elements in their drinking water are encouraged to join a water study led by College of the Atlantic earth sciences chair Dr. Sarah Hall.

NEWS

Accompanied by a team of student researchers, professor John Anderson spends his summers studying bird life on Great Duck – a small, remote Atlantic Ocean island 11 miles south of the entrance to Frenchman Bay.

NEWS

In this episode of WERU’s “Coastal Conversations,” COA W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology and Natural History John Anderson, Meaghan Lyon ’16, and Audra McTague ’19 discuss declining populations of herring and great black-back gull populations and what this change portends for the health of the Gulf of Maine system as a whole.

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